In an interview with the New York Times, she said she would focus her efforts on Iowa. Bachmann visited New Hampshire last week, the fourth visits for 2011, her last visit was in June but she went in Iowa almost 20 times this year. Oops…

It was a beautiful day and Michele Bachmann planned a public speech at Carroll’s Pumpkin Farm in Grinnell, Iowa, but, all of a sudden, she has learned that gay and women rights university students decided to attend the event... What to do?... Frightened, Bachmann decided to cancel her speech.

The Des Moines Register reports that in typical Bachmann fashion, "the event’s 5:30 start time came and went with no sign of the candidate after the event space filled up with college students, some carrying signs. Bachmann ended up not appearing until about 6:40 – after a truck from the Poweshiek County Sheriff and two police cars arrived on the scene and officers cordoned off part of the farm with police tape."

That's true, a group of pro-gay students can be really frightening. lol

Bachmann met with Family Leader donors privately in a house on the property and then took a short walking tour with farm owners Danny Carroll, a former state lawmaker, and his wife.

According to New York Times, "most students said they had come to hear her speak and to ask a question or two."

Michele Bachmann answers : "Thank you for taking the time to express your concerns about anti-gay bullying and harassment via the CREDO Action petition. As your Representative for the 6th district of Minnesota, your views are very important to me and I appreciate hearing from you.

Unquestionably, bullying is wrong. I agree that no student should feel belittled or threatened by peers at school. All human lives have undeniable value, and I urge parents, teachers, and students alike to champion this fact in our community and to address instances of bullying promptly and firmly when they occur.

As one of the members of the U.S. House of Representatives representing the Anoka-Hennepin School District, I am very aware and concerned about the cases of bullying and suicides that have occurred there. In response, my office has been in communication with both school officials and with individuals who have lost a loved one to suicide.

We all desire to see bullying brought to an end and the best interests of students served in our schools. Again, thank you for your commitment on this matter. I assure you I will continue to be a listening ear for any constituent wishing to express his or her view on this or any other issue.

Sincerely,

Michele BachmannMember of Congress"

What do you think about it? I am not really sure the mother received support by the office of Bachmann after her son committed suicide.

Jimmy LaSalvia, executive director of GOProud, told The Ticket :"We’ve made this request, as with the other requests, in good faith to discuss issues important to gay conservatives" with Bachmann as well as "anything she wishes to talk about."

Bachmann indicated that homosexuality is a "part of Satan" for exemple. She also supports the ban of gay marriage and her husband tries to cure homosexuality.

Christopher Barron, President of GOProud, said he is "concerned" and "troubled" what Bachmann said and added that he will not "be part of any ‘war against Michele Bachmann". LaSalvia added that President Obama is the priority of GOProud for the next elections. GOProud will try "to be helpful to whoever secures the GOP nomination."

We always need to distribute some awards for stupidy and this week, we've got our winner ! Michele Bachmann, congresswoman in Minnesota, continues to affirm that gay men are a health risk for the public health, that it is a choice to be gay and that gay parents are inferior to straight parents.

She wishes as well of course that marriage equality is banned in Minnesota so she was the first to sign The Family Leader's pro-marriage pledge.

As explains DesMoinesRegister, "the Family Leader is a prominent Iowa group that promotes Christian conservative social values. It asked all presidential candidates to sign a pledge entitled, 'The Marriage Vow – A Declaration of Dependence upon Marriage and Family.' regarding their personal convictions on traditional marriage."By signing this Marriage Vow, "Presidential candidates must agree to personal fidelity to his or her spouse, the appointment of 'faithful constitutionalists' as judges, opposition to any redefinition of marriage, and prompt reform of uneconomic and anti-marriage aspects of welfare policy, tax policy and divorce law.

The Marriage Vow also outlines support for the legal advocacy for the federal Defense of Marriage Act, humane efforts to protect women and children, rejection of Sharia Islam, safeguards for all married and unmarried U.S. military service members, and commitment to downsizing government and the burden upon American families.

In addition, candidates are asked to recognize that 'robust childrearing and reproduction is beneficial to U.S. demographic, economic, strategic and actuarial health and security.'"

Yes, all that !!! It deserves an award, don't you think? And something is telling me she will be on our list for the gold palm at the end of the year...

Tammy Aaaberg, mother of a student who committed suicide vis-a-vis perpetual bullying of other students, met Michele Bachmann and requested from her to denounce anti-LGBT bullying publicly.

Aaaberg with three students from the Anoka-Hennepin School District and two antibullying advocates, provided a petition with 141,000 signatures inviting Bachmann to speak about bullying in school.

"I think Congresswoman Bachmann is in a leadership role to speak out against bullying," especially now that she is running for the GOP presidential nomination, Aaberg told Associated Press.

"I’m not asking her to change her beliefs. But all kids should be protected in school."

Aaberg, in particular, mentioned the problem of the schools' policies which do not do anything to fight against bullying.

"I talked about how, when I was a student, I got harassed and bullied, and that I believe that staff weren’t responding as well as they should have," Anderson,one of the three students, said, "I can’t count a single day since middle school where I didn’t hear ‘that’s so gay’ or ‘fag.’ And I remember a student saying gay people should just go kill themselves, and the teacher just told them to be quiet."

"I just do not know how we never will obtain at the point of tolerance zero, and means what it? Which will be our definition of the intimidation? Will it obtain at the point where we completely choke the free speech and the expression? It will mean that which form of behavior will be there - we will expect that the boys are girls?" Bachmann said in 2006.

If you are on Houston or not far on September 10th, an LGBT organization invites you to protest against an 'ex-gay' organization.

On its website, Truth Wins Out describes as being "a non-profit organization that fights anti-LGBT religious extremism. TWO specializes in turning information into action by organizing, advocating and fighting for LGBT equality."

The organization is besides at the origin of the discovery of 'ex-gay' therapies in the private clinic of Michele Bachmann's husband.

Through different events, the goal is, in the first time, to explain what are the 'ex-gay' programs and which are the techniques employed. These events will take place the September 7th, 8th and 9th. (More details)

As we could envisage it, Michele Bachmman, republican candidate to the next presidential election in United States, will start Don't Ask Don't Tell policy again if she is elected.

We know that if she is elected, all the progress made during these 2 last years towards more rights for us, could be removed by Bachmann. In an interview on CNN, she confirmed her intention to put DADT in force again. This law which prevents (or should I say prevented) gays and lesbians to be openly out in the army and which will be repealed on September 20th, "works very well", she said.

Yesterday, The New Yorker ran an article about Republican, Michele Bachmann. Her views on gay rights shocked some and intrigued others, causing many other newspapers to pick up on her words alongside those aforementioned.

Ryan Lizza, of the magazine, wrote the following about the GOP Presidential candidate:

Her campaign is going to be a conversation about a set of beliefs more extreme than those of any American politician of her stature, including Sarah Palin, to whom she is inevitably compared. Bachmann said in 2004 that being gay is “personal enslavement,” and that, if same-sex marriage were legalized, “little children will be forced to learn that homosexuality is normal and natural and that perhaps they should try it.” Speaking about gay-rights activists, that same year, she said, “It is our children that is the prize for this community.”

What do you think about what she said? Personally, I think you'll agree with me in saying that it's dispicable.

Michele Bachmann, always in Iowa, assure us for the thousandths time that gay marriage is not possible for her and congratulates the judges who banned the law allowing gays and lesbians to marry in 2009.

Bachmann said Fox News: "Marriage, historically, for all human history has been between a man and a woman. It hasn't been the same-sex marriage," Bachmann said.

"And remember that in Iowa, it was judges that made the decision -- not the legislature, which are the people's representatives, and certainly, not the people."